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Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/008 BE/Liberty - Belgium

Effect
Passed
Result
586 for · 48 against · 16 abstained roll call
Date
29 April 2026, 14:32
Kind
Budget decision
More facts (8)
Margin
by an overwhelming majority
Text
Report A-10-2026-0084
Dossier
2026/0066(BUD)
Source
Committee report by Matthias Ecke
Topics
Jobs, social affairs & equalityEU budget & funds Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
2 votes · 1 roll call
Sitting
Wednesday 29 April 2026
Final vote
189919
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Votes on this decision
Members on the final vote

Result

The final vote and what it means for this kind of decision.

Final vote: 586 for, 48 against, 16 abstained (roll call).

Passed by an overwhelming majority.

The budget decision was approved.

Before the final vote, MEPs decided on 1 part of the text voted on separately (1 rejected).

Backed by The Left, Greens, S&D, Renew, EPP, ECR and Patriots; opposed by ESN.

Groups

Members' votes, each counted in the group they belonged to on the day. No vote: in office that day, no position recorded. Majority line: the most common position. Clear line: a position with at least two thirds of the group's votes (at least 10 members voting), otherwise Divided. Cohesion: Agreement Index, 0 = evenly split, 1 = all voted the same (method).
GroupForAgainstAbst.No voteMajority lineClear lineCohesionBar
The LeftFor 44Against 0Abst. 0No vote 2 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
GreensFor 44Against 1Abst. 0No vote 8 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.97
S&DFor 121Against 0Abst. 1No vote 13 of 135Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.99
RenewFor 63Against 2Abst. 1No vote 11 of 77Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.93
EPPFor 161Against 2Abst. 0No vote 22 of 185Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.98
ECRFor 65Against 10Abst. 6No vote 0 of 81Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.70
PatriotsFor 61Against 11Abst. 3No vote 10 of 85Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.72
ESNFor 3Against 20Abst. 4No vote 0 of 27Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.61
No groupFor 24Against 2Abst. 1No vote 3 of 30Majority line —Clear line No line Cohesion —

Members who changed group are counted in the group of the day: Branko GRIMS changed group, Elena YONCHEVA changed group, Nikola BARTŮŠEK changed group, Nikolas FARANTOURIS changed group, Pina PICIERNO changed group, Taner KABILOV changed group.

Voted against their group, 44

Members who voted otherwise than a clear line (at least two thirds of the votes cast, at least 10 members voting) of the group they sat in that day. A group without a clear line is divided and not counted.

Countries

The final vote by national delegation.

Votes by country (27 delegations)
Members' votes by country. No vote: in office that day, no position recorded. Cohesion: Agreement Index of the delegation, 0 = evenly split, 1 = all the same; it reflects the mix of groups (method).
CountryForAgainstAbst.No voteCohesion
Austria151310.68
Belgium220001.00
Bulgaria123020.70
Cyprus5001—
Czechia164010.70
Germany7115190.72
Denmark132000.80
Estonia5110—
Spain520081.00
Finland131010.89
France710460.92
Greece180210.85
Croatia9003—
Hungary141060.90
Ireland131000.89
Italy670180.98
Lithuania100100.86
Luxembourg6000—
Latvia8001—
Malta1005—
Netherlands208030.57
Poland466010.83
Portugal200100.93
Romania241080.94
Sweden144030.67
Slovenia9000—
Slovakia120210.79

Members

Each member’s recorded position on the final roll call, in the group they sat in that day. Filter by country, group, position or name.

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Debate speakers and how they voted

Members who spoke in the plenary debate on the dossier. Speeches: how many times they took the floor. Final vote: their recorded position on this decision's final roll call.
MemberGroupSpeechesSpokeFinal vote
Roberta METSOLA MaltaEPPSpeeches129 Apr 2026 (verbatim report, official site) No vote recorded
Matthias ECKE GermanyS&DSpeeches129 Apr 2026 (verbatim report, official site) For

All votes on this decision, 2

In voting order. Result: for–against–abstained (a show of hands has no count). Requested by: the groups that asked for a roll call, a split vote or a separate vote.
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
1Separate vote on paragraph 8 Show of hands Rejected
2Final vote — text as a whole A10-0084/2026 – Matthias Ecke – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) Roll call586 for, 48 against, 16 abstained Adopted

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2026-0084

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Parliament approved the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers to support workers made redundant by the bankruptcy of Liberty in Belgium.

The decision releases EU money for tailored measures such as training, guidance and job-search help for the affected workers.

Parliament agreed with the Commission that Belgium meets the conditions for the support.

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AI: The text in short Written by AI from the official text — check the source

Parliament approves the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers with EUR 2 033 869 for Belgium following 507 redundancies at Liberty Galaţi Belgian Branch, a steel company declared bankrupt in 2025.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2026/0066(BUD) · Budgetary procedure

Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers following an application from Belgium – EGF/2025/008 BE/Liberty

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 21 May 2026 and now EU law.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 9 March 2026 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 8 April 2026 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 14 April 2026 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 29 April 2026 (done)
  5. Published as law · 21 May 2026 (done)

Lead committee: BUDG · Rapporteur: Matthias ECKE (S&D)

Connections

What this decision touches: the procedural chain, the same text, running issues, votes that split the chamber the same way.

Show 8 connections: Running issue: European Pillar of Social Rights · Other decisions of the part-session on BUDG dossiers

Running issue: European Pillar of Social Rights

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Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-04-29/22
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Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/008 BE/Liberty - Belgium”. Decision, 29 April 2026. votingId 189919, document A-10-2026-0084, reference 2026/0066(BUD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-04-29/22 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 29 April 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-04-29-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 29 April 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-04-29-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-04-29, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2026-04-29/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2026-04-29-22,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/008 BE/Liberty - Belgium}},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-04-29},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-04-29/22}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-04-29/22},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 189919, document A-10-2026-0084, reference 2026/0066(BUD). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-04-29-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-04-29-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-04-29 (CC BY 4.0)}
}